{"id":77599,"date":"2025-10-14T10:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/77599\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T10:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:23:07","slug":"stephen-colbert-makes-his-unexpected-praise-of-donald-trump-hilariously-about-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/77599\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Makes His Unexpected Praise Of Donald Trump Hilariously About Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Stephen Colbert on Monday did something highly unusual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe Late Show\u201d host gave President Donald Trump credit for helping broker the ceasefire in Gaza. \u201cOK, it\u2019s important,\u201d said Colbert.\u00a0\u201cCredit where credit is due. Donald Trump did something good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Then, turning offstage, he joked, \u201cAre we still canceled? You sure? I tried. I tried.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CBS announced this summer that it was nixing Colbert\u2019s show. It will end in May 2026. The network claimed the axing was down to \u201cpurely financial\u201d reasons. But it came as parent company Paramount Global sought approval from the Trump administration for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paramount.com\/press\/skydance-media-and-paramount-global-complete-merger-creating-next-generation-media-company\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:now-granted merger;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">now-granted merger<\/a> with Skydance Media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Buzz: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/stephen-colbert-trump-promo_n_689577d5e4b001d68aedd44c?utm_campaign=yahoo-recirc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Stephen Colbert Has Epic Response To Trump&#039;s Latest Attack On His Show;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Stephen Colbert Has Epic Response To Trump&#8217;s Latest Attack On His Show<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Colbert, a vehement critic of the president, riffed again on the theme later in his monologue when noting Trump\u2019s recent admission that he likely won\u2019t make it to heaven.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI agree with Donald Trump,\u201d Colbert said, pausing before glancing offstage again: \u201cStill canceled?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Watch Colbert\u2019s full monologue here:<\/p>\n<p>Related&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/stephen-colbert-donald-trump-question_n_68ee0204e4b058bb20d3ad87?utm_campaign=yahoo-recirc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Read the original on HuffPost;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Read the original on HuffPost<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert on Monday did something highly unusual. \u201cThe Late Show\u201d host gave President Donald Trump credit for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[65,156,111,139,69,5459,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-77599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-stephen-colbert","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}